Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Chapter 12, Page 9, Book 14

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Kathleen Norris

Let Us Wait in Joyful Hope

I read a story that said it is traditional to make 13 different kinds of cookies for Christmas, and though I have never found the source for this bit of folklore, it makes sense to me. It also serves as aconvenient way of dividing up the time before Christmas. I figure if I make three different batches ofcookies each week during Advent, and an extra batch the last week, I’ll have thirteen different kindsof cookies to serve and I can box them up and give them as Christmas presents.

Talk about joyful preparation, I think this is one piece of advice I’m going to try. Waiting does bring good things!!

I may not make 13 different kinds, I'm getting a late start here, but there will be some baking going on here. Hopefully I’ll be showing you some pictures of my cookie baking soon. Nothing says lovin’ like something from the oven. The pictures are from past years’ cookies.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

I agree with your quote from Kathleen Norris. Although sometimes it is hard to wait fro what is behind the bend.

It is great when we can enjoy life NOW! Most of us spent too many times wishing for tomorrow. Now that it is here I want to try to enjoy it.Cool here, I know it is COLD there!

I have some great photos of the Ohio landscape in the summer that pop up. I even got to see and photo one like you held on your blog, the old Barn with the Ohio painted on it.Not sure I would love the winters...

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Make Me an Instrument of Your PeaceSaint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love,Where there is injury, pardonWhere there is doubt, faith,Where there is despair, hope,Where there is darkness, light,Where there is sadness, joy.O Divine Master, grant that I may not so muchseek to be consoled as to console,not so much to be understood as to understand,not so much to be loved, as to love;for it is in giving that we receive,it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,it is in dying that we awake to eternal life

Remember to FORGET the troubles that pass your way; but NEVER forget the blessings that come each day

Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it! Hebrews...

This is one of our Ohio barns that are scattered all over the state

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While there is time, Lord, May I use it well, 'Tis gone in a moment, One can never tell Which day is our last one, With so much to do, All must be in order, When summoned by You. While there is time, Lord, And life is my own, Let me bring gladness To someone alone. Renew a small hope, Rekindle a dream, For shadows are never As dark as they seem. While there is time, Lord, Let me not waste The chances You give me, I cannot replace.Lend me Your wisdom, That I may learn To give of myself, Nor ask a return. Let me be gentle, Keep my words kind, In spite of the worries, Crossing my mind. And when at long last, Life's sun starts to set, Let me have never A cause to regret.